SuffolkYou're in Norfolk, have you tried playing like the locals?
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What the feck have you done today?
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Just got back from my first ever Nudist Holiday( in Tenerife.)
The first three days were the hardest.
The first three days were the hardest.
An expensive day yesterday , potholed on my way to work resulting in a new nearside front tyre . My first puncture with a run flat which performed excellently . I was able to drive to work on it and then to my local tyre fitter on the way home, in total about 25 miles and other than a slight juddering through the steering wheel it felt ok.
The tyre fitter is in a unit just behind Flitwick Motorcycles Flitwick Motorcycles less than 2 miles from home. I`ve been thinking of getting a new helmet for a few months and while waiting for the tyre to be fitted I bought this. They helpfully price matched to the internet and it`s good to support your local sheriff :-
The tyre fitter is in a unit just behind Flitwick Motorcycles Flitwick Motorcycles less than 2 miles from home. I`ve been thinking of getting a new helmet for a few months and while waiting for the tyre to be fitted I bought this. They helpfully price matched to the internet and it`s good to support your local sheriff :-
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Send the council the bill - you can do it online in Lancashire. Did you get photos of the pothole?
Worth a go.For the helmet too
No damage to the rim?
Just the tyre. The run flat tyres are more robust than standard as far as I can tell and that seemed to limit the damage. It hadn`t even started to deflate when I was able to pull over and check it a mile or so after the pothole.
Donāt forget to put a recognisable object along side in your photo, for perspective
Also if you can, find a witness who can authenticate it, ideally with an accompanying signature itāll work on your favour.
The above helped me with a claim years back
Good advice thank you. The tyre fitter still has the tyre so I will collect it and include pictures showing the damage caused and the tread left too.
I had a flat from a pothole last year - I thought the rim would be fucked, it was an almighty bang when it happened and the tyre was flat as a pancake in about 100m.
No damage to the rim, and they were relatively low profile tyres - 245/45
I used to practice scales all the time, I couldnāt get enough theory. It got very boring and picking up the guitar became a chore.
I was on the justinguitar forum one day and someone mentioned about how many complete songs you could play, this changed my direction.
He said if you want to get better at guitar learn songs, learn songs, learn songs. By learning songs you pick up skills without realising it.
It all depends on what your goals are. Iām never going to be writing my own songs, I just want to be able to learn my favourite songs.
A fair understanding of theory/scales is important but playing the guitar is supposed to be fun.
I rarely sit down and practice scales now is what Iām saying I suppose. This is what works for me nowadays.
Scales are a good warm up exercise to get your fingers going before you launch into songs. I learnt with the CAGED method - scales around C, A, G, E, D chord shapes that are repeatable all the way up the fret. But if you try to nail the entire technique until you can race up and down the fret like Tommy Emmanuel without taking time out to apply what you have learned to some real music, theory does become a tedious exercise that can discourage and demoralise.
I admit it did get me down. I'd have been better off learning all the C shape scales, which are the easiest, then playing some songs in C as a reward for the effort before moving on to the next ones.
Must've been swamped.
I totally agree about learning songs you love but I have to nail these technical aspects to move to the next theory module which i am doing also as Iāve completed the level
System and am level 8 so my next module is about composition and structures so have to suck it up really if I want to complete it but yeah itās boring but great as you say for warming fingers up. I just want to go as far as possible with it, Thatās what my brain is like I have to go all in or not bother just like dad.
Iām also keen to learn another stringed instrument like banjo or violin but will wait for a bit as I donāt think poor dog could put up with me learning violin
Youāre learning the correct way, a proper structure and eventually it will all fall into place.I totally agree about learning songs you love but I have to nail these technical aspects to move to the next theory module which i am doing also as Iāve completed the level
System and am level 8 so my next module is about composition and structures so have to suck it up really if I want to complete it but yeah itās boring but great as you say for warming fingers up. I just want to go as far as possible with it, Thatās what my brain is like I have to go all in or not bother just like dad.
Iām also keen to learn another stringed instrument like banjo or violin but will wait for a bit as I donāt think poor dog could put up with me learning violin
Iām not really a Metallica fan but Nothing Else Matters is a great song to learn on acoustic. It incorporates finger picking, barre chords, CAGED system and so on. Brilliant for technique and theory although the solo is nigh on impossible on the acoustic. Youāll have to buy a Les Paulā¦
Ideally you learn a musical instrument as a child and better still learn two or more simultaneously. As a child your brain is a blank canvas and you absorb more information without making asumptions or forming fixed thought patterns. I was brought up with classical music as my Dad was a professional musician and a concert standard pianist, so the guitar wasn't really on my radar until adulthood. By that time I'd long since learned to read music and I see a musical stave as a keyboard, not a fretboard. That doesn't work with the guitar and I've found it uimpossible to unlearn. I played the trumpet, French horn and briefly the clarinet as a kid and they all felt relatable to the piano on which taught I'd learned to read music.I totally agree about learning songs you love but I have to nail these technical aspects to move to the next theory module which i am doing also as Iāve completed the level
System and am level 8 so my next module is about composition and structures so have to suck it up really if I want to complete it but yeah itās boring but great as you say for warming fingers up. I just want to go as far as possible with it, Thatās what my brain is like I have to go all in or not bother just like dad.
Iām also keen to learn another stringed instrument like banjo or violin but will wait for a bit as I donāt think poor dog could put up with me learning violin
I'd love to be able to play any bowed string instrument. I adore violin and cello music. The cello is reckoned to be the man-made instrument that most closely resembles the human voice in tone and expression, except it has vastly more range. Other instruments make sounds. Bowed strings sing like human beings.
I tried to learn the violin as a kid but I have a high collar bone and I found mounting the thing inder my chin excrutiatingly uncomfortable. I wish I'd be able to master it.
Itās lovely that you had that in your childhood though as it opened your mind to the beauty of music especially classical of which I love Chopin Handel and wagner.
Growing up in France I learned as a child to
Play the accordion so as you say very different from strings but I believe it was helpful in allowing both hands to do
Different things at the same time and to understand music melody and
rhythm.
My sister is excellent on the cello and my mum used to play violin so I hope somewhere I have the skill to learn more as I remember mum
Playing the schindlers list theme and it went through me and resonated in my stomach which was beautiful. Iād love to be able
To play that as a homage to mum.
My guitar teacher is always pushing me
Which is great as he understands that my brain
Doesnāt function ānormallyā so he structures lessons to suit me and he also
Plays banjo so thereās something else
To try xx